Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

"rab" <rogeralanblackwell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> It is only by taking a critical attitude to this 'formalising of
> dialectics' that we can develop dialectical materialism today but this
> work doesn't easily fit into the everyday consciousness because in the
> struggle to grasp even works by Hegel the mind tends to 'formalise'
> the content in order to understand the logic espoused.  It is
> necessary to suspend 'judgement' for a time and just follow the
> 'argument' in the order that this 'content' may stimulate new thought
> through contradiction.  Whilst the work of some of those soviet
> philosophers may be useful in presenting the 'bare bones' of
> dialectical categories and their interconnections it is necessary to
> understand the 'active' side of dialectics and the fact that it
> develops through struggle.

So what's peoples opinion here concerning Rosa Lichtenstein's
Anti-dialectics website at:  
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/index.htm
She argues that dialectics is unnecessary to Marxism and indeed has
been harmful to it.  She rejects dialectics whether in the form of
orthodox materialism or in the more heterodox varieties of
Western Marxism (i.e. Gramsci, Lukacs, Sartre, Horkheimer etc.)

Jim F.
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> Roger
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